DWS: Even Rubio won't help Mitt

1/29/12 11:48 AM EST

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) said Sunday that there is no way Mitt Romney will be able to carry Florida in the general election, even if the candidate chooses Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) as his running mate.

“I think that Mitt Romney is so out of step with the priorities of Floridians,” the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee said on CBS’s “Face the Nation. “I’ve stood in line behind senior citizens in my district who’ve had to leave one or two of their prescriptions at the counter because of the donut hole in the prescription drug program. Mitt Romney would repeal the Affordable Care Act.”

Continuing to blast Romney’s stance on immigration, charging that the former Massachusetts governor believes some “immigrants should just line up and self-deport and leave the country,” Wasserman Schultz said even Rubio won’t be able to make Romney an attractive candidate in the Sunshine State.

“Marco Rubio, as nice a guy he is, he’s not going to be able to salvage the really extreme positions that Mitt Romney and the rest of the Republican field have, because they are dramatically out of step with the priorities of Floridians,” she said.